My creative work with the ancient oracle known as the I Ching, Book of Changes or Zhouyi Oracle has been in progress for many years now ~ in fact there are a now a couple of decades involved :)

My intent with this video was to give a tiny taste of the spirit of this iconic, enigmatic work and its mysterious origins. The soundtrack, Arms of Old, is another beautiful composition by Emma Gillespie.

Here's a time-lapse from some years ago, included here since I didn't have a blog then & still work in the same way, creatively manifesting my dreams where possible.

I believe that messages from the Divine, when they are gifted to us, require a response: to be honoured and manifested. If we do this, we open up a free-flowing dialogue which continues to deepen the more we engage with it.

A couple of years ago, I had a meaningful dream with which I followed this process by writing a song about it.

It only occured to me reccently that I could take this further by actually creating the beautiful object which was the focus of it.

After doing this, I again affirmed my desire to learn from my dreams and that night dreamed I was in a shop which sold ancient relics, hundreds or even thousands of years old.

I was drawn to one, which was a figure inside a clay tube open at the top. The figure was obviously beautifully carved, but could never be properly seen as it was hidden within the non-removable casing.

Although it was almost irresistably tantalising not to be able to see the figure, the meaning was clear: this was a heart-felt offering to the Ancestors which was meant to be hidden, with all the beauty on the inside.

I wanted to honour this dream by creating this ancestral offering myself, and decided to time-lapse the process on the night of the winter solstice.